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Teaching Syllable Types For Decoding and Encoding: Practice Based Instruction and Assessment for Phonics

For: Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator, PK-12 Teacher, Teacher Candidate

Explicit instruction of syllable types is a crucial component of phonics instruction. Syllable type instruction plays a critical role in teaching students to decode (read) and encode (spell) words. This toolkit provides strategies for instruction for decoding and encoding different syllable types.

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Recruitment Timeline: Planning Recruitment for a Teacher Residency Program

For: Higher Education Administrator, Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator

This tool is intended for use within a teacher residency program to help plot a strategic and thoughtful recruitment timeline. Intentional and collaborative planning around recruitment is critical for the success of a teacher residency.

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Quality Partnership

For: Higher Education Administrator, Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator

This tool is designed as a self-assessment for an existing partnership. It offers a set of characteristics and actions of a quality partnership. EPPs and school districts can utilize this tool to surface their current reality, determine next steps, and strengthen the work of their partnership.

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Strategies for Sustaining a Teacher Residency

For: Educational Policy Maker, Higher Education Administrator, Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator

Sustaining a teacher residency requires planning for how to compensate residents long-term. This tool provides strategies and discussion questions that Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs) and school district partners can consider to sustain their residency over time given their individual context.

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Residency Readiness: A Self-assessment for Educator Preparation Programs and School District Partnerships

For: Higher Education Administrator, Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator

This tool is intended to be used by an Educator Preparation Program (EPP) and a district partner to determine the readiness level to engage in the development of a sustainable residency model.

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Building a Teacher Residency: Stages of Work and Critical Moves

For: Higher Education Administrator, Higher Education Faculty, PK-12 Administrator

This handbook is intended for an EPP and school district partnership working together to build and sustain a teacher residency. It outlines steps for designing and implementing a teacher residency that centers the needs of the partnership and lays the groundwork for sustainability of the program.

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BranchED seeks to support individual educator preparation programs (EPPs) and the field at large in reimagining and redefining “quality” preparation programs such that attention to issues of diversity and equity are explicit, embedded, and inextricably linked to high-quality performance.

The Resource Portal was created to support our community by providing resources such as instructional materials, online modules, podcasts, practice-based learning opportunities, research briefs, teaching video library, tool/toolkit, and webinars.

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